Puzzle



NlTED STATES PATENT f1 nines,

CORA VENDETTA EMERSON AND JOHN AUGUST I-IILOKEN, or BROOKLYN, N W YORK.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 586,168, dated July 13, 1897.

Application filed May 7, 1897. Serial No. 635,507. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CORA VENDETTA EM- ERSON and JOHN AUGUST HILCKEN, citizens of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in

the county of Kings and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to puzzles; and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class which is simple in construc tion but the solution of which is diflicult,

said solution being capable of accomplishment, however, by the exercise of care, skill, and ingenuity in the manipulation the device.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompa- 2o nying drawings form a part, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of our improved puzzle, and Fig. 2 a cross-section thereof on the line 2 2.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the separate parts of our improvement are designated by the same numerals of reference in each of the views, and in the practice of our invention we provide a base plate or board 5, which is provided at its opposite sides with raised tracks or ways 6 and 7, which are terminated at the diagonally opposite corners of the base plate or board 5 by transverse walls or flanges 8 and 9, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, and the end of the track or way 6 opposite the transverse wall or flange 9 is curved in the form of a semicircle, as shown at 10, and the end of the track or way 7 opposite the transverse wall or flange 8 is similarly curved, asshown at 11, andwe also provide a track Or way 12, which is in the form of an ogee curve and between which and the ends of the curved portions 10 and 11 of the tracks or ways 6 and 7 are open spaces 13, and a curved or circular track or way 14 is also provided, the ends of which with transverse end Walls or flanges 17, and these transverse end walls or flanges are also substantially at diametrically opposite points, and the ends of the tracks or ways 15 and 16 opposite the curved portions of the tracks or Ways 6 and 7 are also curved inwardly, as shown at 18 and 19, the curved portion 18 of the track or way 15 being formed into an ogee curve, as shown at 20, and between the curved ends of these tracks or ways 15 and 16 are placed two curved tracks or ways 21 and 22,Which are arranged substantially in the form of an ellipse and the ends of which are separated from the curved ends of the tracks or ways 15 and 16 by spaces 23.

WVe also provide four small toy vehicles 24, which are similar in construction, each of which consists of a frame provided with four wheels and a seat and handle-bar similar to the seat and handle-bar of a bicycle, and these toy vehicles are adapted to be placed on the plate or board 5 so that the wheels thereof will travel thereon on the opposite sides of the tracks or ways, and the solution of the puzzle will be readily understood when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the following statement thereof.

In practice one of the vehicles 2-1 is placed on each of the tracks or ways 6, 7, 15, and 16, and said vehicles are placed adjacent to the vertical walls or flanges 8, 9, and 17, and the solution of the puzzle consists in manipulating the device so that the toy Vehicles on the tracks or ways 6 and 7 will change places and so that the toy vehicles on the tracks or ways 15 and 16 will change places. In order to accomplish this, the vehicles on the tracks or ways 6 and 7 must pass each other by means of the curved or segmental tracks or ways 12 and 14: and the vehicle on the tracks or ways 15 and 16 must pass each other by means of the segmental tracks or ways 21 and 22, and to accomplish this the vehicles on the tracks or ways 6 and 7 pass over the spaces 13 onto the tracks or ways 12 and let and the vehicle on the tracks or ways 15 and 16 passes over the spaces 23 onto the tracks or ways 21 and 22. This solution is exceedingly difficult, but may be accomplished by the eXercise of care, skill, and ingenuity in the manipulation of the device, and the attempt at said solution is amusing and entertaining both to the young and old.

Having fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A puzzle, comprising a base plate or board, which is provided with broken tracks or Ways, the spaces between said tracks being provided with curved tracks or ways, and toy vehicles which are adapted to travel over said tracks or ways, substantially as shown and described.

2. A puzzle, comprising a plate or board and two sets of broken tracks or Ways, said tracks or Ways being curved, and the spaces between each set being connected by doublecurved tracks or Ways, and each of said tracks or Ways being provided with a toy vehicle, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our invention We have signed our names, in

presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 5th day of May, 1897.

CORA VENDETTA EMERSON. JOHN AUGUST I-IILOKEN.

Witnesses:

O. GERsT, A. G. VAN BLARCOM. 

